After kicking off with the FancyZones windows manager and Shortcut Guide, PowerToys now comprises a dozen components, including the near-essential 'Awake' utility to keep a PC running without faffing about with power and sleep settings, and Video Conference Mute to kill microphone and/or camera during a conference call regardless of where the focus is. Now at version 0.55, the suite of utilities has swelled since its early days. The default key shortcut for the Paste As Plain Text PowerToy is the Win + Ctrl + V key combination (this can be changed if desired).Although the majority of Microsoft's desktop trumpeting is about Windows 11, the company's PowerToys project has quietly become a very handy addition to the user's toolbox. Any formatting included with the clipboard text will be replaced with an unformatted version of the text. Have you ever copied text into a document or email, but the original text formatting ruined your document? The new Paste As Plain Text PowerToy pastes text from your clipboard, using a key shortcut, and removes text formatting. Previous Top 5 Microsoft PowerToysįrom my Top 5 Microsoft PowerToys post, these were my top 5: Here you can enable and disable the PowerToys to be loaded, set configurations for each PowerToy, and check for new versions of the PowerToys. Right-clicking on this icon and selecting Settings will open the PowerToys menu. Once installed, a PowerToy system tray icon will be added. The PowerToys are loaded as one set, they cannot be installed individually. The PowerToys can be downloaded/installed from the Microsoft Store or Github. The PowerToys are available for Windows 10 (v19041 or newer) and Windows 11.

Therefore, I am updating my “Top 5 Microsoft PowerToys” list to “Top 6 Microsoft PowerToys”. In release version 0.68, a new PowerToy has been added that meets my “Top” criteria. A while ago, I wrote about Microsoft PowerToys and my Top 5 Microsoft PowerToys. These programs add or change features to improve productivity or add customization. Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities developed by Microsoft for use with the Windows operating system.

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